Books in the Cambridge Studies in Religion and American Public Life series

This book colourfully examines a famous Jeffersonian document which set the precedent for the US Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty. The Statute's history reflects two key revolutionary principles: absolute freedom of religious conscience; and the separation of church and state.

During the first sixty years of the last century, the so-called mainline Protestant denominations in the USA were compelled to accommodate to the influences of diverse religions and growing secularization. Here twelve historians examine the American Protestant establishment and its response to the growing pluralism of the times.

Liberalism and Catholicism are two of the most important forces shaping the contemporary political culture of the USA. This book explores what is at stake as they encounter each other in new contexts today. This book has relevance to debates about the future of liberalism and Catholicism elsewhere.

Steeples and Stacks is a study of the religion-based community group that formed in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1977 in response to the proposed shutdown of a portion of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube's steelworks. The closing was one of the most dramatic of the plant closings that have come to symbolise American deindustrialisation.

Liberalism and Catholicism are two of the most important forces shaping the contemporary political culture of the USA. This book explores what is at stake as they encounter each other in new contexts today. This book has relevance to debates about the future of liberalism and Catholicism elsewhere.

This book colourfully examines a famous Jeffersonian document which set the precedent for the US Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty. The Statute's history reflects two key revolutionary principles: absolute freedom of religious conscience; and the separation of church and state.

During the first sixty years of the last century, the so-called mainline Protestant denominations in the USA were compelled to accommodate to the influences of diverse religions and growing secularization. Here twelve historians examine the American Protestant establishment and its response to the growing pluralism of the times.